[AG-TECH] Re: Audio/Video capture
Jason Leigh
spiff at evl.uic.edu
Fri Jul 19 11:54:14 CDT 2002
Seems to me, until AGP8X cards come out, you're going to get minor
performance improvements in 2D applications since you're basically going
to be fill limited.
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Jason Leigh, PhD
spiff at evl.uic.edu Electronic Visualization Lab (M/C 152)
EVL Phone (312) 996-3002 University of Illinois at Chicago
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Jay Beavers
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 11:15 AM
> To: Robert Olson; Don Morton; Sergeant A. G. Tech
> Cc: Cleary, Daniel R
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Re: Audio/Video capture
>
>
> Surprisingly, the NVIDIA Quadro4 NVS 400 (4 head) is a PCI
> card. The NVIDIA Quadro4 NVS 200 (2 head) is an AGP card.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Olson [mailto:olson at mcs.anl.gov]
> Sent: Fri 7/19/2002 8:32 AM
> To: Don Morton; Sergeant A. G. Tech
> Cc: Cleary, Daniel R
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Re: Audio/Video capture
>
>
>
> The Parhelia looks like a great card .. I've got one on
> order, we'll see
> how it works. From what I see, it shoudl have great 2d
> performance and will
> support the three heads we want at AGP rates ...
>
> Someone else mentioned an nVidia 4-head card - any news
> on how that works?
> Is it really AGP to the graphics engines, or is it like
> the one I tried
> that is AGP to a PCI/PCI bridge and then just PCI
> graphics adapters.
>
> --bob
>
> At 09:27 AM 7/19/2002 -0600, Don Morton wrote:
> >Dan, I've posted to AG-Tech - I can't think of any
> reason why the
> >Parhelia wouldn't work, and I think I saw talk of it
> on this list
> >in the past day or so. Maybe someone more knowledgeable than I
> >would be willing to chime in? My only caution would
> be to ensure
> >that it works "with" the PCI video card you'll be
> using, so you'll
> >indeed have four heads working simultaneously.
> >
> >"Cleary, Daniel R" wrote:
> > >
> > > Don,
> > >
> > > I just received a quote from a local vendor for the
> PIG specs, more
> > > specifically for the display computer we talked
> about setting up on Monday.
> > > I requested the wrong Matrox graphics card (the
> G200) and he quoted me for
> > > the Matrox Parhelia triple head. Being as we will
> be running Windows on
> > this
> > > particular computer, I cannot forsee any problems
> with the difference in
> > > cards. Can you advise on this situation? Should we
> insist on the tried and
> > > tested Matrox G400?
> >
> >--
> > Don Morton
> http://MRoCCS.cs.umt.edu/~morton/
> > Department of
> Computer Science The University of Montana
> > Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax
> (406) 243-5139
>
>
>
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